{"product_id":"9781551524788","title":"The Lava in My Bones","description":"\u003cp\u003eA frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Webster\u003c\/b\u003e's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of All Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e, won the ReLit Award for story collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049997582576,"sku":"9781551524788","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551524788_p0.jpg?v=1763753178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551524788","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}